Louisiana Tech University's Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness (PDRIB) is probing noise safety standards of electric and hybrid cars to ascertain whether the sound is safe enough for pedestrians, including blinds. ...
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Government's push of e-commerce in rural areas will stimulate online fresh food sales A government-backed drive toward e-commerce can help open up the agricultural sector and generate a rapid increase in incomes for farmers. At a ...
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German automaker Volkswagen has inked an agreement with Chinese joint venture partner SAIC Motor for expanding its main Shanghai Volkswagen (SVW) plant in Anting for electric vehicle production in China. The agreement was inked between ...
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German automobile major BMW has geared up to launch Dynamic Parking Prediction app to help drivers find vacant space for on-street parking. With a view to consolidating its position on the domain of connectivity between cars, the new ...
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Volkswagen of America, arm of German automobile major Volkswagen, has partnered with renewable energy and carbon offset services provider 3Degrees for carbon reduction drive in California and Texas, while pumping in $10m to boost its ...
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Fuel retailers' solutions firm Kalibrate has identified more than 30,000 spots in California for setting up hydrogen refueling stations for fuel-cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), categorizing them in the range between best and worst on the ...
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Automobile major Ford has geared up to produce around 40,000 extra units this year by cutting down its traditional two-week summer shutdown to one for its five manufacturing units in the US. The decision comes in the wake of customer ...
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Foton Motor released their sales report on June 4, and they produced 44,300 vehicles in May, down 5.8% over last year, and they sold 43,700 units, down 12.95% over last year. The total production this are are 236,500 units, down 17.68% ...
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China Cargo Van Production Committee held the second summit meeting on May 26, 2015, and the eight member manufacturers, FAW, Dongfeng, Sinotruk, Shacman, JAC, Beiqi Foton, SIH and Dongfeng Commercial Vehicles, signed the Proposal of ABS ...
US-based regulated public utility firm San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) will put in place electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure at up to 550 business and multi-family sites in the Californian region under its pilot program Electric ...
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Japanese automobile maker Toyota is looking into ways to adopt SmartDeviceLink (SDL), the open-source version of Ford AppLink, for its utilization in a sector wide solution towards integrating smartphone application with vehicles. Ford ...
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Automobile major General Motors (GM) will pump in $119m in tools and equipment to boost the component output for its future vehicles at its Grand Rapids operations unit in Michigan, creating around 300 employment opportunities. The ...
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Automobile maker Ford will arm its 2016 Ford Escape and Fiesta vehicles with SYNC3 technology, a communications and entertainment system capable of responding to driver's commands. Ford SYNC, currently installed in more than 12 million ...
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Dutch navigation and mapping solutions firm TomTom has launched Trucker 6000 for the benefit of those earning their livelihood driving heavy vehicles. Offering customized routes with a user-specific vehicle type, size, weight, cargo and ...
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China's new 10-year new-energy vehicle development plan has more objective, practical goals than the one released in 2012, after NEV sales in the first quarter accounted for only 5 percent of this year's original target. The Ministry of ...